This was a student project by Cullen Meves, Autumn 2005 for Jose Parral's LARCH 457 course. This course looked in depth that the problems surrounding rebuilding New Orleans, and challenged students to design a comprehensive system for doing so. Flooding New Orleans became a design about the infrastructure of the city and how it could be redesigned to accommodate future flooding such as with Hurricane Katrina, as well as the day to day storm water management needs of the city. The design is a system of layers that set up the transportation routes throughout downtown New Orleans. These layers allow for quicker evacuation during emergency situations, as well as maintained access during times of flooding. The roadway infrastructure was the most important source of transportation, but streetcar, bike way, and canal systems were also dealt with in this design. The infrastructures were set up in a hierarchy system, with the highways being the most important systems in times of crisis, and therefore placed at the highest level, away from potential flood levels. From there down, there were different levels of access of all the transportation routes depending on their placement within the city and their proximity to canals and rivers, or other areas of flood potential. These rules allowed for a very systematic and organized structure to develop within the infrastructure of New Orleans. -- Cullen Meves This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. This effort was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation.
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